Sunday, October 14, 2018

Experience
is the comb that life gives you when you are bald; Age has been the perfect
fire extinguisher for flaming youth.; Beware of the naked man who
offers you his shirt.; A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a
reef; The ball went so high that it could brought an airhostess down
with it; Its very difficult to kill a man who is hell bent upon
committing suicide!"; No one reads a book to reach the middle - its the
end that matters ****

~
quotes from a Man, who first played in Ahmedabad in 1983, then at Chennai, then
had to wait 5 long years for his next of his total of 51 tests.In all he made 3202 test runs with 9
centuries and 4413 runs in 136 ODIs with 6 centuries.For statistical reasons, he would well remember
that Test in Dec 1983 – his 2nd – he made 20 – Gavaskar made 236*
and Sidhu bowled his only over in International Cricket.

remember seeing Navjot singh
Sidhu play at Chepauk against Malcolm Marshall and Michael Holding, survive for
sometime – dubbed as a ‘strokeless wonder’ returned with greater resolve at the
same ground in Chennai, in Reliance WC
hitting Australian attack for 5 sixers that had Mcdermoot, Bruce Reid and Simon
O Donnel. After retiring, his style of speaking, sidhuisms and colour of
turban were to be watched out !~ that
was the first ever ODI at Madras, the 1st match of Reliance

WC
1987~ so Sidhu has reasons to remember Chennai !!

Another
Cricketer who had played along, whom I had seen at Chepauk, Imran Khan became
the Prime Minister of Pakistan in a pampered ceremony – there were plans to
invite India’s great Cricketers including Kapil Dev for the swearing-in
ceremony, but that was not to happen as reportedly
they ultimately decided on a "simple
ceremony" that would include just a few of his close friend.Navjot Singh Sidhu went there, played to the
gallery and stirred fire for hugging Pakistan Army Chief Qamar Javed Bajwa.Among the many strong critics was Punjab
Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, who too,
criticised his cabinet minister, Sidhu, for his 'hugplomacy'. "Everyday
our jawans are getting martyred. To hug their Chief General Bajwa...I am
against this," Captain Amarinder said."To say that 'I don't know General Bajwa'...it is written on their
uniform. That's wrong for him (Sidhu) to have shown the affections he did for
the Pakistan Army Chief," the chief minister added. He further said that
his own regiment lost one Major and two Jawans a few months ago. Singh also
questioned casualties due to firing from the Pakistani side of the border,
"Whether the man who pulled the trigger is to be blamed or the man who
gives the order? Which is the chief, and the chief is General Bajwa."

Navjot Singh Sidhu, who returned from
Pakistan seemed to be the least concerned about being criticised for embracing
the Pakistan Army Chief. Speaking to the media in Amritsar, Navjot Singh Sidhu
said that he was a guest in Pakistan and occupied the seat that was offered to
him. On being asked why he gave a hug to the Pakistan Army Chief General Bajwa,
Sidhu said that he "had gone to Pakistan to show love and received the
same in return". Now comes the other gaffe - Speaking at a literary
festival in Kasol, Sidhu said, "If I go to Tamil Nadu, I don’t understand
the language. Not that I don’t like the food, but I can’t take it for long.
That culture is totally different. But if I travel to Pakistan there is no difficulty.
The language is the same and everything there is just amazing."

The Punjab tourism and culture
minister was apparently trying to highlight the cultural affinity Punjab shares
with Pakistan. However, by drawing a comparison over the sensitive lingual divide
issue, Sidhu, in the process, has perhaps compounded his troubles.

Tamil Nadu has supported him, he has
played in Ranji, Tests, ODI and had been here many a times – for IPL too, he
would have visited the State and its capital many a times, but has the
boorishness to talk about the cultural barrier. Navjot Singh is no stranger to
controversies.Sidhu walked out of
India's 1996 tour of England citing differences with captain Mohammad
Azharuddin. Following this, he was banished from the team for ten Tests by the
BCCI eventually making a return in the 1996–97 tour of West Indies. In the
second Test at Queen's Park Oval, he scored a double century. The 201, his
highest score in Tests lasted 11 hours.

After 19 years of cricketingcareer and few more as commentator, Sidhu
joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in 2004 and contested the general election
from Amritsar. He won the election and held the seat till 2014 winning also the
next election. He was nominated to the Rajya Sabha in 2016 from Punjab before
he resigned from the position the same year and quitting the party. In 2017, he
joined the Indian National Congress and was elected to the Punjab Legislative
Assembly from Amritsar East.

He was a good Cricketer, who waited
for his turn and waited patiently for easy deliveries to milk runs ~ but in
politics has been rather impatient and often courts controversies with gaffes. We also need to know whether this comment on south India is his individual opinion or that his party ??

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